Support Woodstock School

You can make a difference

Woodstock School was founded in 1854 with a strong mission, vision and sense of community that remains even today. As a non-profit institution, financial support is crucial to delivering the kind of outstanding education that our community values. Gifts to Woodstock School help provide the school with the additional resources required beyond tuition. This will ensure the sustainability of our programme over the long-term.

Woodstock offers different ways to get involved. No matter how you choose to support the school; through annual giving, student scholarships, funding new initiatives, or leaving a legacy, your generosity will make a big difference. Consider giving today by making Woodstock one of your philanthropic priorities, and invest in the future of our students!

Giving Opportunities

Like many international schools around the world, Woodstock School depends on fundraising as an important part of its operating budget and to meet its long term goals. You can make your gift to Woodstock in a number of ways: Student Scholarships, Major Gifts and Woodstock Fund for Excellence.

Student Scholarships

Woodstock School has a growing number of endowed, named scholarships which support particular categories of student within the school’s recruitment objectives. If you wish to consider such an investment, please click here to email the Director of Development to discuss your ideas.

Major Gifts

Generous alumni and community members have made major contributions to the renewal of the campus throughout Woodstock’s 162 year history. Projects that have been funded include the HS science wing, Midlands, Hostel, Win Mumby Gymnasium, Alter Ridge renovations and various staff and employee houses If you want to discuss a larger individual, corporate or class gift, and where it might be used, please click here to email the Director of Development to discuss your ideas.

Woodstock Fund for Excellence

Donations to the Woodstock Fund for Excellence provide the school with the flexibility to address annual needs that arise to support the people and programmes that make Woodstock School distinctive. Donors can make unrestricted donations that enable the school to identify and fund annual initiatives such as these, or donors can direct their contribution to a programme of their choice.

Located in Tafton, the oldest building on the Woodstock campus, the Centre is intended to be a living space on campus for young people not only to pursue independent study, but to discover their potential to change their immediate world and future possibilities. Serving as a doorway to Woodstock’s immense resources for learning, the Centre will focus on preparing young people to meaningfully occupy a peaceful and sustainable future.

The Scholarships for Peace initiative actively seeks to enable students from fragile states or conflict-affected regions to join our international community. We hope that by giving them the gift of a Woodstock School education, we can help them grow into enlightened global citizens who can ultimately play a role in building a peaceful future in their home nations.

For Woodstock School students and faculty to be engaged in community engagement projects. These projects offer significant potential for experiential learning, deeper understanding of the lives of villagers and what it means for Woodstock Students to become agents of change. It is expected that skills, lessons and attitudes acquired from this engagement will have lifelong value for both the village and for Woodstock students and faculty. In particular constructing and starting a village primary school dovetails with the proposed teacher training effort at Woodstock.

A fund established at the suggestion of T.Z. Chu ‘52, and funded in part by generous donations from T.Z. Chu and David Schoonmaker ‘62 to enhance Woodstock School’s ability to provide current and competitive science training to its students.

A fund in honour of Dan Terry ’65 who worked for three decades in Afghanistan building bridges between contending groups. Dan was killed in Afghanistan in August 2010. The purpose of this fund is to help Woodstock hold peacemaker workshops and seminars to inspire people to take up the unfinished task of healing the world’s strife.

At Woodstock, it’s not just students who are on a learning journey. We want our teachers and staff to achieve their full potential, with the benefit passed on to the whole community. Funds donated enable Woodstock staff to take opportunities for growth which aren’t normally available within our standard staff development offering.

A fund to help children of employees currently employed with Woodstock School pursue further education at college and university levels (vocational courses included, but not courses that you can register for without a 10 + 12 school leaving certificate. A grant of Rs. 20,000 per calendar year is provided to meritorious students who demonstrate an annual average of 60% of total marks (or first division for the preceding year).

Your support can change lives

“My parents always wanted me to get a good education in a safe place. Woodstock provided me with many leadership opportunities I wouldn’t have had in Kabul, just for being a girl. I believe it’s my education at Woodstock that has helped me to get into Connecticut College with a full scholarship. My goal is to become a lawyer and to go back to Afghanistan to work for Afghan women.”